Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...

An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy. By Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint is the author of “Kafka’s Last Trial” and, most recently ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century author Franz Kafka, released in the U.S. from June 6.

By Franz Kafka, translated by Mark Harman Buy Book Putting transformation back into the title opens up new dimensions in the story—new, that is, to English-language readers.

Hailing from Prague, novelist Franz Kafka was born on July 3 in 1883 and is celebrated for some of his most iconic literary ...

The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month shy of his 41st birthday. A century after his death, the books and stories by the Jewish writer from Prague remain widely read ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

“The life and works of Franz Kafka have long been a source of fascination throughout the world,” Sotheby’s Books & Manuscripts specialist Gabriel Heaton said in the release.

I, for one, did not. It's a story mentioned briefly on a wall text at the Morgan Library's new exhibition in lovely tribute to Franz Kafka, on view through April 13.

Kafka, a Jewish Bohemian author lived 40 years and 11 months and died of laryngeal tuberculous in a sanatorium near Vienna. This inventory is given to us through clinical narration, accompanied by ...

In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that he never shook off, and his writing was a presentiment of his later books.